About

“It has already been described… It has all been written about. Do you know what learning gives you? The ability to make use of sources.”
- The Tower of the Swallow

I read, write, and walk the boglands.
I've thought too much about The Witcher.
It made sense to give these thoughts their own space.
(see how that journey began)

Currently my writing remains scattered across the Internet. In time, I will be porting it over so as to make a single garden. Perhaps in time this plot can grow into something more. Subscribe if you enjoy reading.

Modus Operandi

I'm interested in how ideas evolve and what gets cut, I like to go meta, and I like to get inside characters' heads.

I read The Witcher as a meta fantasy. Deconstructing and reinterpreting a genre in which it might seem like all 'original' stories have been told, Andrzej Sapkowski plays to his readers' curiosity about storytelling. I was first charmed by his tale's humanism against all odds, but it was the intertextual weave of the story that got me hopelessly tangled; so I read and read some more, and will continue to do so as I write.

'Everything has already been, everything has already happened. And everything has already been described,' says Vysogota of Corvo. I am not at a point where I could say that yet, so I persist and intuitively favour dense, reference-heavy, indefinite texts.

The detective work continues in CD Projekt Red's adaptations and, perhaps, with Netflix's rendition as well, as we dive into transmedia storytelling and how that influences the constuction of a myth. The range of narrative interpretation expands as archetypal characters and stories reflect and refract, creating new meaning according to the times.

Works in Progress

Re-read of The Witcher Cycle → Thoughts chapter-by-chapter.
Story Drafts of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt → Documenting the plot and character developments in the story drafts between 2012-2014.
“Influences & Outtakes” → A series of articles drawing on literature which might have inspired some of The Witcher. Thoughts on sections from Świat króla Artura, Rękopis znaleziony w Smoczej Jaskini, and Historia i fantastyka.
The Hussite Trilogy → Reviews.
“Glass Hearts” → Fanfiction. A dive into the inter-textual fringes of The Witcher’s pantextual universe. (A character study for Eredin, Auberon & Shiadhal, and Avallac’h. Worldbuildy.)
Revisions → The backlog since 2019 needs updating.

Contact

I exist on bluesky, twitter, tumblr, and other liminal places. Let's chat!
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